Dream Theater 2001

Between 0310-0710, 4/31/00:

Since I never remember my dreams this lucidly, last time it happened (many years ago) I wrote it down. This time, you get the pleasure. :)

I was in a group of slaves (apparently free to travel), traveling south by truck from somewhere in the North down to Tennessee. I had stolen a small box of stuff from the house we were coming from, including (among other things) a coffee maker, and was very proud of this. I showed it to some of the group, but not the group leader, as he'd be upset. (Note that during this trip, the house we left from, the house we stayed at sometimes, and the house we arrived at, all seemed to be the same house, and that I alternated between being the person who'd stolen the items and one of the other people on the trip.) At some point along the way I got sushi from a local fast-food/carry-out restaurant for ~$2, and later had $1 left with which to buy more--I was hoping it would be enough, but the woman gave it to me for free. (Note that I bought Cajun Fries from Louie's for real last night for ~$2, and was considering a soda with the $4 I had left. However, I went back and had one of Neal's beers.) At some point during the trip I was spending time/the night with Erin (don't ask me, ask my subconscious). She had to take a shower, and the pipes in her house were being worked on, and were noisy. Apparently the shower water falling on her shower curtain added even more noise, so she removed it, and then the shower somehow didn't work anyway, so she got out, and I saw her naked (about which she was entirely unashamed) and complimented her on her body. Nothing further happened there, although it seemed like it would later. Oh, also while I was there, she was paging through some pornography, applying cream to some of the female models; the porn also featured people pretending to get it on with people of different caliber (made of sand at the beach, statues somewhere..) End that bit of scene, cut back to destination in TN. I'm now the person who stole stuff, and group leader finds out. He orders me to walk back and return it. (From TN to somewhere up north, via 95, which apparently went through TN), and gives me the address (something vague, like 200 The Big House) for where I'm going back to, and where we are now. I complain, (thinking) because I was going to have sex Erin and it was now going to be a while til I got some, but eventually leave carrying the box of stuff and some toiletries. After quickly reading the conclusion to this story we were in that someone had quickly written, I walk off through the start of a hilly valley covered in pristine snowbanks, which seemed odd even in the dream since we were in TN. I then became one of the other people on the trip, asking the leader if he had any -idea- how long that trip would take to walk, and suggested that he just return it to the house where we already were. I was considering going after the guy who'd left to suggest this, but then woke up cuz of my alarm.

Dammit..

What's with these daily 30-degree temperature spans? Not that I'm complaining about the highs, but c'mon..

It's currently 52 degrees.

Alerts
o NEAR RECORD HIGHS TODAY AND WEDNESDAY

Forecast
Today: Partly cloudy. High 82. Winds S 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 54. Light S to SW winds.

Tomorrow: A mix of sun and clouds. High 79. Winds S to SW 10 to 15 mph.

Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy. Low 57. Winds S to SW 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the low 50s.

Friday: Partly cloudy with isolated thunderstorms ending late. Highs in the low 70s and lows in the low 40s.

Guns, last time..

Todd brought in:

Ruger 10-22 rifle with a scope. Cheap (<$200) and incredibly reliable (he estimates 30,000+ rounds without a jam), and remarkably accurate at 50ft, go figure :)

Thompson .50 Hawken (replica, muzzleloader), with all manner of loads and balls, from loose black powder and powder horn and patch and ball, to a few different gunpowder pellets and balls with padding and greased plastic attached, to plastic-backed copper-clad bullets. He fired that one once, after having not used it for a year or two, and was bulls-eye accurate.

We each got to fire 10 rounds with the semiauto rifle; on a 50 Ft Timed&rapid fire pistol target, I got 7, 9, 10*6, bull*2. (That's 9 shots within the 4" black, first one outside, and the gun was sighting an inch or so right.)

Then 30 rounds with the pistols; I got good clustering, but my pistol was sighting about 3" NNW :P

(Last week I did calculate that, at 50ft, the 4" bullseye subtends a 0.4 degree angle..)

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I also played frisbee for 20min before going to handgun class, and hung out on the Arts Quad for 20min before work.. it's so nice out! =)

Trust baby trust baby 1 2 3 4

The list of people Erin doesn't think you can trust:

• people who (claim they) don't masturbate
  
• people who don't like bacon
  
• people who don't like animals (like any at all)
  
• people who don't like amusement parks
  
• people who were/are still virgins at age 25
  
• people who are super-religious
  
• chicks (or anyone, but particularly chicks) who are anti-choice

..seems reasonable, I thought :)

What he's figured out so far..

Go read Sylvie's 7:50pm post.. especially if you are, perhaps, one of those people who thinks there's something wrong with you, or want your life to be different somehow...

So I join a few groups..

Seems I like looking at pictures.. so I'm now a member of:

white light, an incredible collection of general photography;
Portraits, the spin-off of the above, dedicated to pictures of people;
show your naked parts, dedicated to the naked human form, in all its manifestations; and,
Submit Your Sensuous Art, similar to the above but with softer edges and a more artistic flair.

And, because I couldn't resist in any way whatsoever, Redhead. =)